This TV Show Is So Raunchy, the Network Made Toys to Distract Children While Parents Watch

And you thought Game of Thrones was bad

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The French love themselves some sex, or at least some quality nakedness, which manages to pop up in ads for everything from food delivery to selling tables.

To demonstrate how raunchy Season 2 of Canal+ show Versailles will be, French agency BETC decided to roll the dice on that reputation.

The case study below depicts Versailles—about the exploits (and sexploits!) of King Louis XIV, who ran France for 72 years—as a show whose gleeful onscreen debauchery gives Game of Thrones (and Kanye)

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